but suppose some terrorist sets off a nuclear bomb nearby?
I've seen enough Twilight Zone episodes to know that when the fit hits the shan and a nuke goes off, it's not the nuke or even the terrorists that are the enemy... but ourselves!
people are mindlessly jumping on the anime bandwagon because outsourcing doesnt concern them unless it's in their own field. Not many people here are animators, and thus don't give a crap if it's outsourced. And then they go ahead and bash all American animation for being corporate and evil (Disney, Dreamworks, etc).
And here's a shameless plug - Check out my animation!! Oh... and hire me.
*movie pauses, announcer comes on* If you want Han to shoot first, press ONE! If you want Greedo to shoot first, press TWO! If you don't want them to shoot each other and have a nice chat instead, press THREE!/me presses ONE
Or, it's more like "Ok, so you got this classic car that you left in the parking lot and it isn't made anymore and you own the intellectual property rights on the manufacturing of the car, but since you're not doing anything with those intellectual property rights, I'm gonna duplicate your car and start manufacturing it and giving it away for free to anyone who wants to download this car off the internet... and you still own the rights and everything, but now if you want to manufacture the car and sell it at EBWorld Games... or umm... a car dealership or something, then you're gonna have to compete with us giving it away for free... or sue us so we stop manufacturing it." now just replace "car" with "game"
I hate it when people take a perfectly fine analogy and unnecessarily complicate it to the point where it makes absolutely no sense. Nobody is gonna duplicate a car for themselves, therefore, your analogy is meaningless, even if it is more "accurate" to what the analogy is representing.
Ask adults who use compuers a lot and can't touch type if they wish they could. I hear a lot of, "Yes, I wish I could type."
Key word being "adults." Of course typing skills are a necessity since computers are getting more ubiquitous. But that also means that kids are gretting their hands on them at an earlier age and by the time they take these classes, they already know how to type. It's like teaching basic algebra to college kids.
As another reader pointed out, the odds of it being hit by a second meteorite, is exactly the same is it being hit by the first... which is slim, but another meteor isn't going to avoid the house next time because a meteor crashed there beforehand.
Yeah, in the short term, Disney got the better deal because now they can market their Pixar franchises to hell. But they need new franchises in order to keep an audience. People won't be hanging around lusting after new Toy Story straight to video sequels forever. Disney can't make a new hot franchise to save their lives. With all the marketing surrounding Brother Bear and those 2 dumb-ass meese, the movie was still a flop.
Disney is going to hang on to those Pixar franchises all the way to the grave, and then they'll sell them back to Pixar for cheap.
Final Fantasy: The Movie, anyone? The Squaresoft Hawaii studio did as much R&D on their movies in the hair, skin, and cloth department as any other CG film and that turned out crap. Realism isn't what makes a movie great. It's pure story and script... The technological advances and great animation are a bonus.
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It takes years to make these movies. Dreamworks/PDI is not cranking them out as soon as Pixar makes a hit movie, as you're leading on. I forget the specific dates but didn't Antz come out a few months before A Bug's Life?
I believe that the technology behind these movies are the things driving the setting/storyline of these movies. With a bugs life/antz, it was crowd simulation that was a big thing and now it's water.
I didn't know that Manhattan subway conspiracy theory preachers have taken to online forums... So you must be new here... welcome to slashdot!
You speak as if any of this is a bad thing. Society will adapt. If Western society isn't working, we'll move onto a different one. But it won't be for awhile. I don't think I'll be combing the vast expanses of American desert on my camel anytime soon.
Breaking into programming is much harder than it used to be.
I believe getting into programming is easier than it used to be. Back in the day, when computers were scarce and BASIC was on every computer, there were hardly any programming classes, and you had to take time out of your schedule to learn the language, and even if you did there was really nothing you could do with it... just a pointless pasttime. Now, you can download from lots and lots of free compilers, in 10 different languages for varying levels of users, there are hundreds of books for every level of computer user, and it's a distinguished career so you actually have something to look forward to if you really like it. It's never been easier to break into programming.
while your less-wealthy friends snicker at you behind their napkins.
While they snicker back and attach a bumper sticker to their porsche that says "My other car is a THIRTY FUCKING DOLLAR Chandelier! Not your lame Taurus!"
Yeah, but you usually name them after Star Trek characters. My computer is named James T. Kirk and the computers at my school's lab have a Deep Space 9 naming convention (Sisko, Odo, Garak, etc.)
I would say that the thing that distinguishes a computer from another is the contents of the harddrive, much like we distinguish people through their memories... If you replace a persons body but they have the same memories, people would consider him the same person. The same goes for computers.
If you format the drive, then it's still the same computer since it has the same parts and will probably have pretty much the same type of contents on the harddrive as before since it will have the same user. Once the user switches, it's a different computer.
But as someone in another post said, I shouldn't anthropomorphize computers... they hate that.
Isn't paying too much money part of the plan? But yeah, "put coin in slot next to car" is as smart as people are. I live in an area where a lot of the meters have been replaced with 1 machine that you have to put money into, print a receipt and put the receipt on the windshield of the car. I can't even count the number of times tourists are standing around the machine asking "How does it know where I'm parked?" when the instructions are as plain as day on the machine.
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but suppose some terrorist sets off a nuclear bomb nearby?
I've seen enough Twilight Zone episodes to know that when the fit hits the shan and a nuke goes off, it's not the nuke or even the terrorists that are the enemy... but ourselves!
But Greedo shoots at the same time now!
people are mindlessly jumping on the anime bandwagon because outsourcing doesnt concern them unless it's in their own field. Not many people here are animators, and thus don't give a crap if it's outsourced. And then they go ahead and bash all American animation for being corporate and evil (Disney, Dreamworks, etc).
And here's a shameless plug - Check out my animation!! Oh... and hire me.
*movie pauses, announcer comes on* /me presses ONE
If you want Han to shoot first, press ONE!
If you want Greedo to shoot first, press TWO!
If you don't want them to shoot each other and have a nice chat instead, press THREE!
*announcer* You have pressed TWO.
me: umm... no I didn't.
*announcer* I'm pretty sure you did!
sorry to Futurama.
Or, it's more like "Ok, so you got this classic car that you left in the parking lot and it isn't made anymore and you own the intellectual property rights on the manufacturing of the car, but since you're not doing anything with those intellectual property rights, I'm gonna duplicate your car and start manufacturing it and giving it away for free to anyone who wants to download this car off the internet... and you still own the rights and everything, but now if you want to manufacture the car and sell it at EBWorld Games... or umm... a car dealership or something, then you're gonna have to compete with us giving it away for free... or sue us so we stop manufacturing it." now just replace "car" with "game"
I hate it when people take a perfectly fine analogy and unnecessarily complicate it to the point where it makes absolutely no sense. Nobody is gonna duplicate a car for themselves, therefore, your analogy is meaningless, even if it is more "accurate" to what the analogy is representing.
Nah, things were a lot more civilized on the internet back then... it went more like
Geek 1: Pip, pip! I do believe I have the first post!
Geek 2: Oh drat! You beat me to it, ol' chap!
Geek 1: Cheerio!
yeah, but what about the humiliation of running every morning in a man-sized hamster wheel?
Yeah, that game is freakin' awesome. I got it for 5 bucks at EB and it was worth every penny.
Ask adults who use compuers a lot and can't touch type if they wish they could. I hear a lot of, "Yes, I wish I could type."
Key word being "adults." Of course typing skills are a necessity since computers are getting more ubiquitous. But that also means that kids are gretting their hands on them at an earlier age and by the time they take these classes, they already know how to type. It's like teaching basic algebra to college kids.
I've been protesting for years
Needs a stuffed monkey hanging on the coat hanger and a Billy Big Mouth Singing Bass fish... You can't put a price on comedy.
Why not claim the insurance? They're paying for it, so let them pay something back. And then sell the meteor on EBay.
As another reader pointed out, the odds of it being hit by a second meteorite, is exactly the same is it being hit by the first... which is slim, but another meteor isn't going to avoid the house next time because a meteor crashed there beforehand.
and this is a product where the better it gets, the more it stinks.
Yeah, in the short term, Disney got the better deal because now they can market their Pixar franchises to hell. But they need new franchises in order to keep an audience. People won't be hanging around lusting after new Toy Story straight to video sequels forever. Disney can't make a new hot franchise to save their lives. With all the marketing surrounding Brother Bear and those 2 dumb-ass meese, the movie was still a flop.
Disney is going to hang on to those Pixar franchises all the way to the grave, and then they'll sell them back to Pixar for cheap.
Final Fantasy: The Movie, anyone? The Squaresoft Hawaii studio did as much R&D on their movies in the hair, skin, and cloth department as any other CG film and that turned out crap. Realism isn't what makes a movie great. It's pure story and script... The technological advances and great animation are a bonus.
It takes years to make these movies. Dreamworks/PDI is not cranking them out as soon as Pixar makes a hit movie, as you're leading on. I forget the specific dates but didn't Antz come out a few months before A Bug's Life?
I believe that the technology behind these movies are the things driving the setting/storyline of these movies. With a bugs life/antz, it was crowd simulation that was a big thing and now it's water.
I didn't know that Manhattan subway conspiracy theory preachers have taken to online forums... So you must be new here... welcome to slashdot!
You speak as if any of this is a bad thing. Society will adapt. If Western society isn't working, we'll move onto a different one. But it won't be for awhile. I don't think I'll be combing the vast expanses of American desert on my camel anytime soon.
Breaking into programming is much harder than it used to be.
I believe getting into programming is easier than it used to be. Back in the day, when computers were scarce and BASIC was on every computer, there were hardly any programming classes, and you had to take time out of your schedule to learn the language, and even if you did there was really nothing you could do with it... just a pointless pasttime. Now, you can download from lots and lots of free compilers, in 10 different languages for varying levels of users, there are hundreds of books for every level of computer user, and it's a distinguished career so you actually have something to look forward to if you really like it. It's never been easier to break into programming.
while your less-wealthy friends snicker at you behind their napkins.
While they snicker back and attach a bumper sticker to their porsche that says "My other car is a THIRTY FUCKING DOLLAR Chandelier! Not your lame Taurus!"
Yeah, but you usually name them after Star Trek characters. My computer is named James T. Kirk and the computers at my school's lab have a Deep Space 9 naming convention (Sisko, Odo, Garak, etc.)
I would say that the thing that distinguishes a computer from another is the contents of the harddrive, much like we distinguish people through their memories... If you replace a persons body but they have the same memories, people would consider him the same person. The same goes for computers.
If you format the drive, then it's still the same computer since it has the same parts and will probably have pretty much the same type of contents on the harddrive as before since it will have the same user. Once the user switches, it's a different computer.
But as someone in another post said, I shouldn't anthropomorphize computers... they hate that.
Nah... you won't be pulletbroof... it will probably only make you constipated.
Isn't paying too much money part of the plan? But yeah, "put coin in slot next to car" is as smart as people are. I live in an area where a lot of the meters have been replaced with 1 machine that you have to put money into, print a receipt and put the receipt on the windshield of the car. I can't even count the number of times tourists are standing around the machine asking "How does it know where I'm parked?" when the instructions are as plain as day on the machine.
nice Real Men of Genius mock